Nail buncher and assorter



1. CATINZEARO. NAIL BUNCHER AND ASSORTER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-9| 1919.

1,331,901. Patented Feb. 24,1920.

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. JNVENTOR MAL W TWZWMV W 0 A TTOR/VE Y5 JOHN QA'IINZEARO, OF CHICAGO,ILLINOIS.

NAIL BUNCHER AND ASSORTER.

' Specification 01' Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 24, 1920.

Application filed August 9, 1919. Serial No. 316,330.

To all evkom it may concern:

Be 1t knownthat I, J orm GArmzeA'no, a

' citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago,in the county of Cook and State Of'IlllIlOlS, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Nail Bunchers and Assorters of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relatesto an improvement which I have termed a nail buncherand assorter, which is designed to be used primarily by box makers, andit consists in the combinations, constructions and arrangements hereindescribed and claimed.

In the box making industry, as in other industries, the item of labor isone of the main factors in the cost of manufacture. In making boxes itis customary for the workman to reach into the box or keg containingnails, graspa handful of nails with his left hand, and then by means ofhis right hand he will assort the nails, so as to bring the heads of allthe nails uppermost. After this is done, he can proceed to nail the boxrapidly, feeding the nails out toward the ends of the fingersoneby one.The operation of assorting or adjusting the nails requires considerabletime, and the purpose of the present invention is to provide a devicewhich will cut down the time of assorting the nails to one-tenth or evenmore than that.

In many instances the workman, in thrusting his hand into the ke or boxwill run the point of the nail into is finger or underneath the fingernail.

. A further object of my invention is to provide a device which obviatesthe necessity of picking up the nails with the hand, and thuseliminating all danger of injury or blood poisoning which may occur'fromrunning the nail into the fingers or hand.

A further object of my invention provide a device of the type describedis to which is of simple construction and which may be manufacturedcheaply.

Further objects and advantages will appear in the followingspecification and the novel features of the invention will bearticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

My invent on is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming apartof this application, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of thedevies, showing the manner in which it is used, an

will be shaken oil into the container.

Fig. 2 is a section substantially along the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out my invention I provide a handle 1 of any suitable shape,but preferably of the shape shown in the drawings. The handle ispreferably made of wood, and is provided with an integral head 2. Aseries of nails or teeth 3 is carried by the head,

theheads of the nails being preferably counter-sunk, as shown in Fig. 2,and being covered by a retaining band 4, which ma be a strip of brass orother suitable materia On the opposite side is a metal late 5, throughwhich the nails pass, this p ate being counter-sunk, and being securedby means of screws 6. The plate 5 forms a rigid retaining member for thenails or teeth 3. The nails or teeth 3 are spaced equally apart,

the distance depending upon the size of the nails to be assorted orarranged.

In the use of the device, the handle is grasped with the right hand inthe manner shown in Fig. 1, and then with a scooping action the teeth 3are drawn through a mass of nails in a container. The implement istipped so as to incline the teeth slightly upwardly, and then is shaken.The nails which have been engaged will slide down toward the plate 5,while those nails which have not been caught up between the teethoperation is repeated three or four times, when the mplement will befilled with nails hanging from the teeth in the manner shown in Fig. 1.These operations can be conducted very rapidly. The left hand is placedaround the bunch, and the nails are slipped ofl from the implement withthe heads of the" nails uppermost. The time saved in arranging the nailsover the old hand method of arrangement adds greatly to the box Thismakers cfiiciency. and enables him to turn I out much more work thanwhere he has to arrange the nails in the old way.

Furthermore all danger of njury to the hands or fingers is obviated.since the hands are not thrust into the keg, as they are'ordinarily. Thedevice may be used etlicientlv as an assorting device, as well as a nailbuncher and arranger. In a keg where there are nails of miscellaneoussizes. this device will pick out only those nails whose heads will notgo between the teeth or prongs 3. Ohviously, the teeth may be spacedapart at various distances, so that one instrument may be used for nailsof'only one size or for nails of several sizes.

The device 1s simple 1n constructlon and .cheap to manufacture.

I claim: 1. In a nail buncher and assorter, a handle, a flat head formedintegrally with said handle, and a row of teeth secured to said headon'one side thereof near'the end of the head, said teeth being spacedapart at equal distances and projecting laterally and at right angles tothe plane of the head.

the row of teeth, said teeth being spaced apart at equal distances andprojecting laterally and at right angles to-the plane of the ;head, anda metal strengthening plate carried by the head for holding the teethrigidly in-position. J OHN OATINZEARO.

'-said flat head being of greater Width than

